That suggeststightening on the Democratic side from numbers in March -- perhaps predictably, given the frenetic campaigning leading up to Tuesday's primary. Kasich's numbers among Republican likelies rose here in Marco Rubio's absence.

Cruz: Trump’s a lousy businessman

Cruz unloaded a harsh attack Tuesday on a core belief of Trump’s fan base — that he’s a business genius — and likened his tactics to those of a mobster.

Alluding to the growing problems in Trump’s campaign, which include getting out-organized and outfoxed dealing with state parties in battles for delegates, Cruz said on Glenn Beck’s radio show, “it appears he can’t run a lemonade stand.”

Cruz ripped Trump as a bully who encourages violence, citing reports that his supporters were publishing home addresses of Colorado delegates and threatening to make public the hotel room numbers of national convention delegates.

“Donald needs to understand he’s not Michael Corleone,” Cruz said, referring to Mafia boss in “The Godfather” films. “The presidency should not be La Cosa Nostra ... Donald keeps hiring people with records of dirty tricks, of lies and of threats to violence.” (Audio clip here.)

Ryan: No means no, No, NO

When House Republicans couldn’t get along last year, they decided Rep. Paul Ryan was the answer and made him Speaker of the House. The party’s worsening fissures in the year of Trump have some hoping he can be a unifying figure again.

Not gonna happen, Ryan said Tuesday. “I will not allow my name to be placed in nomination,” Ryan said. “And it will not be me. I don’t know how I can be clearer than that. ... It should be someone who actually wants to be president or is running for president.” (Video here.)

Clinton has been depicting Bernie Sanders’ Vermont as a major home base for illegal gun trafficking into New York. It is not. Far more weapons come from Virginia, where Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a close Clinton ally, has been criticized for compromises with the gun lobby.

And as for Trump’s tantrums over a “rigged” and “crooked” delegate-selection process, them’s the rules — and in his business dealings, Trump often brags of using complex rules, including bankruptcy laws, to his advantage.

Meanwhile, BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski unearthed a quote oft-tweeted by Trump in recent years: “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

Sanders on Wednesday won the endorsement of the Transport Workers Union Local 100, representing New York City bus and subway workers, Newsday's Emily Ngo reports. The campaign sees it as giving them access to a solid get-out-the-vote operation. Clinton came back with an endorsement by Electrical Workers Local 3.

“If talking about equal pay and paid leave and more opportunities for women and girls is playing the gender card, then deal me in,” she said at a Times Square event marking Equal Pay Day.

Kasich, at the Women’s National Republican Club headquarters in Manhattan, said he can lead his party “out of a path of darkness.” Newsday’s Laura Figueroa covered his speech.

Trump treated a crowd of to 5,000 in Rome, New York, to aFestivus-like airing of grievances about the GOP delegate-selection process. Sanders, in Syracuse, said if corporate greed isn’t held back, “this younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living than their parents did.” Yancey Roy and Michael Gormley have those stories for Newsday.

Trump women on Trump, women

Trump’s family joined him on a CNN town hall, and the answers on how he treats women were comforting, and not so much. Daughter Ivanka: “He always taught me that there wasn’t anything I couldn’t do.” Wife Melania: “If they attack him, he will attack back, no matter who you are.”